War and Women Across Continents: Autobiographical and Biographical Experiences

Book Overview

Drawing on family materials, historical records, and eyewitness accounts, this book shows the impact of war on individual women caught up in diverse and often treacherous situations. It relates stories of partisans in Holland, an Italian woman carrying guns and provisions in the face of hostile soldiers, and Kikuyu women involved in the Mau Mau insurrection in Kenya. A woman displaced from Silesia recalls fleeing with children across war-torn...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1785338250
• ISBN13: 9781785338250
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"